[Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Citizens for Kennedy rally, Waldorf-Astoria, New York City, September 14, 1960--excerpt. First half of speech].

Kennedy reviews the issues which have traditionally been associated with the Democratic Party since the administrations of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry Truman: housing, care for the aged, education, equality of opportunity, and civil rights. One of the problems facing the next president of the U.S. is that of economic growth, the need for a free society based on a free economy to successfully stimulate that economy to allow full employment in a time of increasing automation. Kennedy predicts that the economic problems facing McDowell County, W.Va., will soon face other industries across the U.S. That county now mines more coal than it ever has before, and more coal than any county in the U.S., yet it has more people getting surplus packages from the government than any other county in the U.S.Leer más

Unedited special event coverage; speech.Title supplied from: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Freedom of communications. Final report of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, 1961-62, part I, p. 235.Probably produced by Jack Denove.Lacks the opening two or three sentences.

Resumen:

Kennedy reviews the issues which have traditionally been associated with the Democratic Party since the administrations of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry Truman: housing, care for the aged, education, equality of opportunity, and civil rights. One of the problems facing the next president of the U.S. is that of economic growth, the need for a free society based on a free economy to successfully stimulate that economy to allow full employment in a time of increasing automation. Kennedy predicts that the economic problems facing McDowell County, W.Va., will soon face other industries across the U.S. That county now mines more coal than it ever has before, and more coal than any county in the U.S., yet it has more people getting surplus packages from the government than any other county in the U.S.